Chapter 236 The most haiku, the most moonlit night, the most girlish (asking for monthly tickets)
A slight itching sensation came from his face, Xia Pingzhou opened his eyes and saw a ceiling that was neither familiar nor unfamiliar. This was the room of the Bergen Fjord Hotel.
At this time, a little paper man was walking back and forth on his face, swaying and walking in a funny way. Looking down, the little paper man only had two short legs and a pointed head.
There's no need to think about it, this was Ayase Origami's doing.
"Kitten, move." Following the faint sound of the voice, I saw the girl in kimono leaning on the windowsill as usual. In the moonlight, she lowered her eyes and flipped through the haiku collection in her hands.
They were still in Bergen. There was a seven-hour time difference between here and Lijing, so it was still late at night when I looked out the window. The streets scattered over the mountains were brightly lit, like a long dragon full of fireworks.
At this moment, the silhouette of the kimono girl and the lights outside the window seemed to blend into one. The night flowed like mercury, and her shadow reflected on the window seemed to be flowing as well.
Ayase Origami went to bed early yesterday, so she woke up early this morning. After controlling the little paper man to wake up Xia Pingzhou, she went into the bathroom with her change of clothes to take a shower.
The sound of running water came from the bathroom. Xia Pingzhou got up from the bed, smacked his lips, and yawned.
This time it was not the eldest lady's inhuman neurosis that happened, but there was a reason for it: before they went to sleep last night, the hacker informed them that they had to board a plane and leave Bergen on the morning of August 2nd, which was early this morning.
After all, the destruction of the Whale Box Garden had just happened, and this city was now the focus of the world's supernatural forces. As a member of the extremely evil White Crow Brigade, they should naturally get out of here as soon as possible and find a quiet place to vacation.
But despite the dangerous situation, Ayase Origami still did not forget the idea of taking the cable car.
She had been talking about it for days, but they had to catch a flight early in the morning, which meant they had to leave Bergen, so the cable car trip was out of the question.
Ayase Origami seemed disappointed.
She sat alone on the windowsill all night, looking at the Fløen Mountains in the distance and the cable cars going back and forth, and her eyes became empty again.
Xia Pingzhou had no choice but to make an agreement with her before going to bed that if Ayase Origami woke up at two or three in the morning, she would wake him up as well, and then the two of them would sneak away to the Floyen Mountains and take the sightseeing cable car.
If the administrator is not there, let the hacker act as the administrator.
The electronic pet is the most useful. It is online 24 hours a day. If you send him a message, he will reply in seconds. It is said that the hacker only sleeps once every few days. If it weren't for the strong physique of a superpower, he would have died suddenly long ago.
But it is true that one will not grow taller if he does not sleep. He is only 1.5 meters tall at the age of 13, and Xia Pingzhou has ridiculed him for this many times.
He thought to himself, this stupid penguin is one year younger than you but is taller than you. Isn’t that embarrassing?
I heard that in order to ensure that he would not miss messages from group members during his sleep, this little prodigy also designed an AI that could intelligently reply to messages from group members and take corresponding actions based on their needs.
Xia Pingzhou decided to give it a try, so he picked up his phone and sent him a message.
【Xia Pingzhou: Are you there? 】
[Tip: No response for a long time, the chat interface has been transferred to the AI "hacker". ]
Xia Pingzhou raised his eyebrows, and saw the image of a little kid in a mosaic jumpsuit pop up on the screen.
The little Mosaic kid knelt down and kowtowed to him, then sat on the ground and asked in a delicate voice:
"Master, please tell me what you want me to do for you."
This scene was extremely strange, and Xia Pingzhou's eyes twitched slightly.
I heard that the hacker originally designed the AI's image to be a beautiful girl in a maid outfit, and its movements were also designed in that direction.
But then the hacker thought it would be embarrassing for the team members to know his quirks, so he had to temporarily change the image of the AI before installing it. After thinking about it, he really didn't have any inspiration, so he finally made a mosaic version of himself.
Then, he was too lazy to change the movements and tones designed for the AI.
So, we have this scene before our eyes, a little kid in a jumpsuit kneeling on the ground like a maid and speaking in a sweet voice.
Xia Pingzhou turned on the voice option and said:
"We are going to take the sightseeing cable car, but we need someone to help us start the cable car. The administrator is not here in the middle of the night."
The AI kid suddenly disappeared, and a text message popped up in its place.
【Hacker: Call me when you get there. 】
Xia Pingzhou opened the voice chat: "Who are you? Give me back my AI."
【Hacker: Alas, capital. 】
[Xia Pingzhou: How do you say cable car? ]
[Hacker: It's easy, you just need to take your daughter with you. But I have to let the Ripper follow you. The leader said that Bergen is very dangerous these two days, and at least three people must act together.]
【Xia Pingzhou: All right.】
【Hacker: Also, please confirm where you want to go on vacation so that I can book a flight for you in the morning. 】
【Xia Pingzhou: I’ll ask later.】
【Hacker: Okay.】
Xia Pingzhou looked up from the phone screen, clicked the gear panel in the lower right corner of his field of vision, and the system options popped up.
He found the task panel and clicked to receive the reward for main task one.
[Completed the main mission 1 (Phase 3): Invade the Whale Garden with the White Crow Brigade.]
[Task rewards obtained: 2 skill points, 2 attribute points, 2 split points. ]
[Main Mission 1 (Phase 4): Need to wait for a certain period of time before refreshing.]
Xia Pingzhou thought about it and lowered his eyes to look at another mission of the No. 2 machine.
[Main Mission 2 "Kill Jack the Ripper" Mission Deadline: September 1 (Warning: If the mission is not completed before the deadline, Unit 2 will be automatically destroyed.]
"Only one month left?" he thought. "The Ripper is already at the level of a natural disaster, and Unit 2 is at the level of a preliminary quasi-natural disaster. It won't be difficult to catch up with her within a month."
After breathing a sigh of relief, Xia Pingzhou opened the character panel of Unit 2 and quickly allocated its attribute points.
[The "Spirit" attribute of your second unit "Chess Player" changes from A-level to A+-level (the power of your "Chess Species" will also increase accordingly)]
[The "Speed" attribute of your second unit "Chess Player" has changed: A-level → A+-level (the speed of your "Chess Type" will also increase accordingly)]
[Attribute points have been allocated. The current skill points are: 2. Do you want to go to the "Skill Tree Panel" to develop them immediately? ]
Xia Pingzhou tapped the prompt box, and the character skill tree panel popped up immediately.
[Branch 1 (Group): ... → Final Recruitment (requires 2 skill points to learn)]
[Final Recruitment: Get one Knight chess piece and three Soldier chess pieces. ]
[Branch 2 (Brave): ...→ Second evolution of chess species (Condition: You need to spend a total of "10" skill points on other branches before you can learn this skill) (You need to spend "2" skill points to learn)]
[Branch Three (Soul): ... → Bridge of Humans and Demons (requires 2 skill points)]
[Bridge of Man and Demon: Temporarily fuse one of your chess pieces with the demon chess piece (the duration of the fusion depends on your "spiritual attribute").]
"The chess types in branch two cannot be evolved, so you can only choose one of the skills in the other two branches."
Thinking of this, Xia Pingzhou began to choose between "Final Recruitment" and "Bridge between Humans and Demons".
He scratched his chin, feeling that the few chess pieces he finally recruited before completing the second evolution of the chess game were of little use, and at most could serve as cannon fodder to charge the king.
Thinking about it this way, I might as well try the effect of the "Bridge between Man and Demon".
So he raised his index finger and long-pressed the skill name of "Bridge of Humans and Demons" on branch three. Then, above the skill icon, a bridge made of humans and demons changed from dark to bright, and finally bloomed into a black and white color.
["2" skill points have been consumed, and the skill of the "Soul" branch - "Bridge of Man and Demon" has been successfully acquired. ]
【Hell is empty, and the devil is on earth. 】
[The next skill of the branch "Soul" has been unlocked - "Soul Devourer": After your chess type kills a demon, there is a chance that it will absorb the demon's attributes, making itself stronger. (One-time chess types cannot enjoy this effect)]
Xia Pingzhou looked away from the character tree panel.
Ayase Origami changed into a light blue kimono and walked out of the bathroom. Under the clear moonlight, her skin was so white that it seemed transparent.
"Mom..." she said softly.
Xia Pingzhou was stunned.
Ayase Origami raised her head and continued, "Mom, the kimono that was left behind."
Xia Pingzhou was silent for a while, then he held his forehead and sighed, thinking that whoever slays a dragon will eventually become a dragon, and whoever stares into the abyss will also become the abyss. He never expected that there would be a day when he would be suppressed by the word "mother".
The girl in kimono remained motionless, her dark eyes staring at him quietly.
Like waiting for something.
"It looks good." Xia Pingzhou finally commented, "The blue kimono suits you better than the original one."
"Why?"
She tilted her head.
"Because you have a more peaceful temperament, and the color blue easily reminds people of the sea, and the sea water is also very peaceful..." Xia Pingzhou was thinking back to the essay he had written in the orphanage. Halfway through his sentence, he took out his vibrating cell phone - the screen was full of wavy lines from a message sent by the hacker.
【Hacker:~~~~~】
[Hacker: High EQ: Because you have a calm temperament.]
[Hacker: Low EQ: Your temperament is more like a human-machine. ]
[Xia Pingzhou: I forwarded it to the eldest lady. She has a cell phone now.]
【Hacker: Please let me go. 】
The hacker suddenly called up the AI, and the Marseille version of the little kid in a jumpsuit knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the screen.
Xia Pingzhou turned off his phone and shrugged: "Let's go and take the cable car."
"You're not finished yet."
"You look good in anything."
"...I'm angry."
On a moonlit night, the paper dragon was flying. It flapped its huge white wings and brought the two to the Floyen Mountains. It was a quiet night, and the wind blew over, and the whole mountain forest was shrouded in a huge rustling sound.
They landed from the dragon's back and walked and stopped on the mountain path. In a short while, they found the cable car they had seen at the port.
After opening the door of the carriage and boarding the cable car, someone started the device for them.
Amid the buzzing sound, the cable car carriage suddenly lit up, like a huge lantern hanging in the night sky, swaying up along the iron cables, and then floating slowly to the other side of the mountain.
The boy and the girl turned their heads to look out the window. The brightly lit fjord city was reflected in their eyes, forming a sea of stars.
"After taking the cable car, where are we going?" Xia Pingzhou suddenly asked, "To China, or London... or back to Tokyo?"
"Wherever you go, I will go."
"Then let's go back to Tokyo."
"Why?"
"I kind of missed that place, so I decided to check to see if Uncle Takikage's cafe is still there."
"good."
"If Taki Ying was still here, would he turn into a shadow and cling to the bottom of the carriage?" Xia Pingzhou asked, "He's really worried about you, and he definitely wouldn't let us go out alone in the middle of the night."
Ayase Origami thought about it and suddenly raised the corners of her mouth, "He should be sitting on the cable car, looking at the night view while writing haiku with a brush."
Xia Pingzhou pondered and said, "Haiku? Can I try to write a couple of lines?"
Ayase Origami was stunned for a moment, then looked up at him, with a hint of doubt in her cold eyes, as if she didn't quite believe that he could write a haiku.
Xia Ping coughed twice:
"The girliest, the most kimono-y, the most puppet-y."
The kimono girl responded:
"The kittenest, the dumbest, the most childish."
Xia Pingzhou nodded seriously, "I see, this is the essence of haiku. Japanese culture is really profound."
As soon as he finished speaking, a collection of haiku flew out from the girl's sleeve, gently tapped his forehead, and then opened in front of him.
"Kitty, you have to finish reading this book as punishment," she said.
"Yes, sir."
Xia Pingzhou took the old haiku collection and was suddenly stunned.
He suddenly remembered that Ayase Origami said that this was left to her by her mother, just like the aqua blue kimono she was wearing now. This sixteen-year-old girl could only find a few proofs of being loved in this world, so she cherished and carefully kept these things with her, and now, she shared them all with him.
He was silent for a while, then asked in a low voice: "Should we go back to the hotel to rest? We have to go to the airport in two or three hours."
Ayase Origami didn't say anything, but just leaned her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes.
"Goodnight, Kitty," she whispered.
"Good night."
In the night, the lantern-like bright cable car reached the end, but no one got off. There were only a boy and a girl sleeping with their heads leaning against each other in the car.
(End of this chapter)
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